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Why not just use Vipps[1] for instance? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipps
by ginko 5y ago
Why not just use Vipps[1] for instance?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipps
- sam_lowry_ 5y agoIt's just a Norvegian thing. We have a similar app here in Belgium. I guess these banks just want a pan-European standard of p2p payment supplant national systems.
- Ciantic 5y agoIt makes sense to have single standard. Denmark and Finland use yet another called MobilePay. So there clearly is cottage industry of these by the banks themselves.
- hocuspocus 5y agoEventually we should see some convergence and interoperability between these systems: https://empsa.org https://empsa.org But EPI solves a different issue.
- mstade 5y agoAnd in Sweden there's Swish. The writing is on the wall, if it's not this initiative there'll be another I'm sure, sooner or later.
- piaste 5y agoItaly has Satispay which has pretty good user penetration, at least among the younger crowd. Satispay's killer feature is that it's aimed heavily at paying bar and restaurant checks, which is more common than sending money between acquaintances. So if you share your location with your app, and the restaurant you're in is a Satispay merchant, it will show up automatically as a receiver without the need to scan codes or anything. I'm sure other countries' payment apps have their own neat little features that others don't. Best case scenario would be for a common infrastructure to be adopted by all of them, and then they can interoperate and compete on feature sets, or even merge.
- giomasce 5y agoSatispay is nice, though I don't understand why it has that funny mechanism with a weekly limit. Sometimes it is quite inconvenient.
- nicolinox 5y agoRevolut is growing very aggressively in Europe and Australia and it's already doing cross-border instant cross-currency transfers (mobile to mobile).